Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Volume 2: Neurological, Psychiatric, and Multi-System Medicine in Older Adults, Rehabil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188121792)

The first volume of this work ended at the heart and lung. The second takes everything that remains, the brain, the mind, the kidney, the marrow, the bone and skin and senses, and then keeps going past the organ systems entirely, into the questions of who decides care, where it is given, and what is owed to a patient when cure is no longer the aim.

Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Volume 2 covers Parts Six through Twelve of the two-volume set.

Coverage across the seven parts:

• Neurological medicine: stroke management, rehabilitation and secondary prevention, Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonism, epilepsy and syncope, normal pressure hydrocephalus and subdural haematoma, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis in older adults, peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain, dysphagia and swallowing rehabilitation, and neuroimaging and biomarkers
• Mental health and geriatric psychiatry: late-life depression, anxiety, PTSD and adjustment disorders, late-onset psychosis, bipolar and personality disorders, alcohol and substance use, suicide and self-harm, psychiatry services, and ageing with Down syndrome and intellectual disability
• Endocrine, metabolic, and renal medicine: individualised diabetes care, thyroid, adrenal and pituitary disorders, osteoporosis, calcium and vitamin D and mineral metabolism, sex hormones and HRT, obesity and metabolic syndrome, renal ageing and kidney injury, and electrolyte and urological disorders
• Gastrointestinal, haematological, and oncological medicine: upper and lower GI disorders, anaemia and coagulation and malignancy, infection and sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship, geriatric oncology, tuberculosis, HIV and tropical infection, and healthcare-associated infection
• Musculoskeletal, dermatological, and sensory medicine: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and crystal arthropathies, polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis, hip fracture and orthogeriatrics, vestibular and gait disorders, geriatric dermatology and leg ulcers, and vision, hearing, smell, taste, oral and foot health
• Special issues of geriatric practice: elder abuse and safeguarding, perioperative medicine and surgical risk, restraints and hospital-acquired deconditioning, caregiver burden, long-term and nursing home care and transitions, digital geriatrics and wearables, precision geriatrics, and antiageing and longevity science
• End-of-life care, ethics, and global systems: palliative medicine, advance care planning and goals of care, ethical frameworks and mental capacity, extreme longevity, education and research methods, quality improvement and patient safety, global geriatric systems in high-income and Global South settings, Alzheimer drug development, ageing policy, and the research horizons ahead, closing with geriatric rehabilitation and acute geriatric medicine and the frailty pathway

Reference frameworks used throughout include the AGS Beers Criteria, the STOPP and START criteria, and the Clinical Frailty Scale.

Laure C. Fine has written this for medical students approaching clerkships, resident physicians and trainees preparing for practice or examination, and the practising clinicians, nurses, and allied health professionals who care for older adults in every setting, from the academic teaching hospital to the rural clinic with neither a geriatrician nor a scanner within reach.